Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-22
Letter from Roanoke.

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazctte.l
Missing my GAZETTE this morning went
r the Times Office to read the copy that
comes to its table; but, when l fshed it out
Of the debris, it was deficient. The editors
ever ready NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. culled
and clipped the coveted sheet until but
bare fragment remained. This shows the
fate of newsy exchange. There are some
exchanges that suffer no mutlation at The
hands of editors and readers. They contain
nothing that is worth preserving, nothing
worthy of reproduction. This is not the
case with the GAZETTE. But | have heard
some hard things said about the GAZETTE OF
late. In giving the opinions of the press for
and against Roanoke rs the place chosen for
the meeting of the democratic State conyen.
ton, some of the papers put down the GA.
zErTE as paper very hostile to our young
city and very disparaging and belitteng in
its remarks. was approached and remind
ed that my highly Cherished journal, pub
lished in the quiet old city of Alexandria,
was so and so, sc. But it has turned out
that it was not the ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE
that had spoken so sneeringly of our young
and growing city. | WAS glad to make the
correction and assure those who were so in
dignant that the GAZETTE is never oil of its
dignity and good manners, and is too old
and well established TO be unfair, unkind,
envious or malicious, and is too patriotic to
discriminate sneerinely against any city,
town, village, hamlet or locality IN our
grand old Commonwealth. There is bet
ter feeling, and the GAZETTE's representa-.
tives will be cordially welcomed and hospi-
tably entertained from the 4th of August
and on ill the close of the convention.
Roanoke is making ample preparations
for the gathering of The democratic clans.
She may not be able TO give each delegate
feather bed, all TO himself, with room and
fire, etc, but she will lodge and feed and
water each delegate YOU have doubtless
heard it said that this mountain city is
hard and wicked place. But not so. We
hope that our democratic friends who pro-
pose to attend the contention will leave
their vices, if they have any, behind.
1t would be a sad visitation. to have the
seeds of vice planted in our soil. If dem
ocratic patriot should so far forget himself
as to imbibe until reason is dethoned and
locomoton is no longer possible, and the
gutter or street becomes his resting place,
such spectacle would greatly shock our
busy community. Our children would look
on WIFI WOHutT huu aiilui. HeJ "ouiu
ask, "What is the matter with that man 2"
"What did it?" "Wil he ever wake up"
"Wil he ever walk any more?n "Will his
limbs ever stillen from their present condi-
ton of dish-rag limberness 2" Oh, it would
be awful if any OF our democratic patriots
should come 10 our young mountain city
and teach our people how to get drunk, and
curse and swear and talk big and loud.
The heated term did not pass us by. The
"odest inhabitant" said that never within
his recollection had the mercury figured so
high in this region as it did those hot July
days, from the 18th to the 18th of tho
month. Cool and pleasant nights, the al
ways compensating law for the hottest
days in these mountain retreats, were the
exception on the nights of the above men
toned dates But the heat in the noun
tains does not enervate like the heat of the
lower lands of Virginia.
The mountains are full of summer board
ers. More than half hundred are now
stopping at the Allegheny Institute, in this
city. PAX.
Roanoke, July 90.